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Letter from SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH,
dated July 27, 1880.,
Original located at the University of Vermont's Special Collections in the George
Perkins Marsh Collection, filed by date.,
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/sfbgpm800727 (accessed August 02, 2015)

Letter from SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH,
dated July 27, 1880.

I am in receipt of your letter of the 7th of July, & shall at once
carry out your suggestion of asking the State Department to give you the necessary
instructions in reference to the acquisition of the Pompeian relics.

Mr Goode has just come back from Berlin. He was treated with
immense consideration by every one & had a very good time. We took our full share of all the prizes, apart from the acquisition
of the Emperors Epergne. As you suggest, I shall not care to
keep it in my house; but expect to have it as one of the trophies of the Fish
Commission, in the National Museum.

As prices go for such things I do not see why Mr Story cannot
make a standing -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- statue in bronze for $15,000. If he does not accept the
trust it will be necessary to get permission from Congress to transfer the offer to
somebody else, but at present no one can do the work buth Mr Story, his name having
been introduced in the Bill by Senator Morrill.

We have been in Newport several weeks, & are daily expecting our new Steamer,
the Fish Hawk to carry on our Scientific work. We are making immense collections of
zoological objects in this coast, a goodly share of which we have already presented
to Italian institutions at Genoa, Florence, & elsewhere.